Author: Gentleman of RichmondPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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SOUTHERN AND SOUTH-WESTERN SKETCHES
Author: Gentleman of RichmondSouthern and South-Western Sketches Fun, Sentiment and Adventure
Author: Gentleman of RichmondSouthern and South-western Sketches
Author: Gentleman of RichmondPublisher:
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Southwest Sketches
Author: Joseph Amasa MunkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor
Author: Edward PiacentinoPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807130865
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Old Southwest flourished between 1830 and 1860, but its brand of humor lives on in the writings of Mark Twain, the novels of William Faulkner, the television series The Beverly Hillbillies, the material of comedian Jeff Foxworthy, and even cyberspace, where nonsoutherners can come up to speed on subjects like hickphonics. The first book on its subject, The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor engages topics ranging from folklore to feminism to the Internet as it pays tribute to a distinctly American comic style that has continued to reinvent itself. The book begins by examining frontier southern humor as manifested in works of Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty, Woody Guthrie, Harry Crews, William Price Fox, Fred Chappell, Barry Hannah, Cormac McCarthy, and African American writers Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, Ishmael Reed, and Yusef Komunyakaa. It then explores southwestern humor’s legacy in popular culture—including comic strips, comedians, and sitcoms—and on the Internet. Many of the trademark themes of modern and contemporary southern wit appeared in stories that circulated in the antebellum Southwest. Often taking the form of tall tales, those stories have served and continue to serve as rich, reusable material for southern writers and entertainers in the twentieth century and beyond. The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor is an innovative collaboration that delves into jokes about hunting, drinking, boasting, and gambling as it studies, among other things, the styles of comedians Andy Griffith, Dave Gardner, and Justin Wilson. It gives splendid demonstration that through the centuries southern humor has continued to be a powerful tool for disarming hypocrites and opening up sensitive issues for discussion.
The Humor of the Old South
Author: M. Thomas IngePublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813159636
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The humor of the Old South -- tales, almanac entries, turf reports, historical sketches, gentlemen's essays on outdoor sports, profiles of local characters -- flourished between 1830 and 1860. The genre's popularity and influence can be traced in the works of major southern writers such as William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and Harry Crews, as well as in contemporary popular culture focusing on the rural South. This collection of essays includes some of the past twenty five years' best writing on the subject, as well as ten new works bringing fresh insights and original approaches to the subject. A number of the essays focus on well known humorists such as Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Johnson Jones Hooper, William Tappan Thompson, and George Washington Harris, all of whom have long been recognized as key figures in Southwestern humor. Other chapters examine the origins of this early humor, in particular selected poems of William Henry Timrod and Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," which anticipate the subject matter, character types, structural elements, and motifs that would become part of the Southwestern tradition. Renditions of "Sleepy Hollow" were later echoed in sketches by William Tappan Thompson, Joseph Beckman Cobb, Orlando Benedict Mayer, Francis James Robinson, and William Gilmore Simms. Several essays also explore antebellum southern humor in the context of race and gender. This literary legacy left an indelible mark on the works of later writers such as Mark Twain and William Faulkner, whose works in a comic vein reflect affinities and connections to the rich lode of materials initially popularized by the Southwestern humorists.
Southwest Sketches
Author: Joseph Amasa MunkPublisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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On the Dialects of Eleven Southern and South-Western Counties with a New Classifications of the English Dialects
Author: Louis-Lucien Bonaparte (Prince de Canino)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 18
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The Industrial Book, 1840-1880
Author: Scott E. CasperPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807830852
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
V. 1. The colonial book in the Atlantic world: This book carries the interrelated stories of publishing, writing, and reading from the beginning of the colonial period in America up to 1790. v. 2 An Extensive Republic: This volume documents the development of a distinctive culture of print in the new American republic. v. 3. The industrial book 1840-1880: This volume covers the creation, distribution, and uses of print and books in the mid-nineteenth century, when a truly national book trade emerged. v. 4. Print in Motion: In a period characterized by expanding markets, national consolidation, and social upheaval, print culture picked up momentum as the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth. v. 5. The Enduring Book: This volume addresses the economic, social, and cultural shifts affecting print culture from Word War II to the present.
A Great Collection of Original Source Material Relating to the Early West and the Far West
Author: Anderson Galleries, IncPublisher:
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Category : Northwest, Old
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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